First sprouts! We've got carrot tops, lettuce hearts and onions and chives growing. We're waiting a few weeks to plant the broccoli, kale, collards, and cabbage so that our plants don't get too leggy before we can move them outside. These are the first ones. The sweet potato put out a few roots and we're waiting for the top part, the 'slip' to sprout. The carrot is just for fun, but the lettuce hearts produced a tiny little salad, from something we otherwise would only have composted.
These are Clear Dawn onion sproutlings from Fedco seeds. They took a bit longer than expected to germinate, at temps of 70-75 degrees F in the daytime and 60 at night.
"(104 days) The best open-pollinated storage onion, Clear Dawn was bred out of Copra by biodynamic market growers and continues to be improved by Turtle Tree Seed. Dawn is slightly smaller than Copra with thicker necks, darker bronze skins and the same great storage capability."
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